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The latest video from Warren Roche underscores the upside down society and government we are living in and under in modern America. How did America get this far away from our founding principles?
Progressivism, by its nature, is a system in which those who have alliances with actors in power get rewarded despite a lack of adherence to a moral code, while their mutual enemies are punished – again, despite their adherence to a moral code.
The ideology of big government can never provide “fairness” because it is inherently unfair. Both ideologies will result in disparity, but the difference is meritocracy versus bureaucracy-based treatment.
Government can never be used as a force for good, because government is not itself good. Conservatism, on the other hand, may result in economic disparity because of natural inequalities between humans themselves, but unnatural structural restrictions will always oppress some individuals and groups based on an aristocratic-type model in a society of big government.
Want to learn more about how human nature interacts with the nature of government?